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In the novel, “Cold Mountain”, the hero deserts because he determines that he is going to die of his festering wound if he stays in the hospital. He steps out of the window and attempts to go home. Going home proves difficult, to say the least. The war was over for him, and it wasn’t.
In many ways the life of a single confederate soldier is a metaphor for the civil war and the nation.
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